Barnes & Noble Inc (BKS) was one of the Russell 2000's biggest losers for Tuesday February 02 as the stock slid 5.5% to $8.08, a loss of $-0.47 per share. Starting at an opening price of $8.50 a share, the stock traded between $8.04 and $8.55 over the course of the trading day. Volume was 650,022 shares over 4,462 trades, against an average daily volume of 1.36 million shares and a total float of 76.47 million.

The losses send Barnes & Noble Inc down to a market cap of $617.87 million. In the last year, Barnes & Noble Inc has traded between $29.00 and $7.62, and its 50-day SMA is currently $9.55 and 200-day SMA is $13.46.

Barnes & Noble Inc is a booksellers and a content, commerce and technology company providing customers access to trade books, textbooks, magazines, newspapers and other content across its multi-channel distribution platform.

Barnes & Noble Inc is based out of New York, NY and has some 41,000 employees. Its CEO is .

The Russell 2000 is one of the leading indices tracking small-cap companies in the United States. It's maintained by Russell Investments, an industry leader in creating and maintaining indices, and consists of the smallest 2000 stocks from the broader Russell 3000 index.

Russell's indices differ from traditional indices like the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or S&P 500, whose members are selected by committee, because they base membership entirely on an objective, rules based methodology. The 3,000 largest companies by market cap make up the Russell 3000, with the 2,000 smaller companies making up the Russell 2000. It's a simple approach that gives a broad, unbiased look at the small-cap market as a whole.

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